LLM technology Defense GTM 2025

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2025 AI Defense guide

Government Fiscal Year 2025 considerations for LLM technology go-to-market

Programs

select programs with scope relevant to ai technOLOGY start-ups

Segmented by buzz words. But these buzz words are the fundamental justification for the program's existence and represent the scope of technologies they are meant to engage and ultimately transact.

GENERATIVE AND LLM

Total Program Value = $119M / 2 programs

This is not the massive funding one might expect from a topic that saturates the commercial market and private sector. This indicates that the Department of Defense (DOD) is uncertain about how to effectively utilize these technologies beyond the basic "chat" functions. Furthermore, they are seeking ways to incorporate these technologies into high-stakes concepts of operations (CONOPs).

That cite Large Language Models in their mission statement
Customer/Program $ Type Descriptor Program #
DTIC 65M RDTE Promote the early adoption of LLM technologies for deployment on DOD networks using military cloud resources. 0605801KA
CDAO - Alpha 1 53M RDTE This is the CDAO's initiative to introduce new LLM and generative software technology. It is open-ended and broad in design, yet linked to data mesh, operational vignettes, and joint scenarios. 0604133D8Z

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Total Program Value = $7.6B / 90 programs

  • By Agency
    • Navy: $2,158.95M
    • Air Force: $1,614.93M
    • Army: $1,141.62M
    • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA): $879.11M
    • Office of the Secretary of Defense: $1,227.88M
    • Chemical and Biological Defense Program: $316.85M
    • Defense Contract Audit Agency: $2.16M
    • Defense Information Systems Agency: $19.3M Defense Logistics Agency: $16.58M
    • Defense Technical Information Center: $65.71M
    • The Joint Staff: $101.32M
    • United States Special Operations Command: $86.74M

Looking at this $7.63B AI investment spread across the DoD, the most telling signal is the Navy's outsized $2.16B allocation - nearly 30% of the total budget - suggesting the maritime domain awareness is viewed as the critical frontier for AI superiority, likely due to the increasing strategic importance of autonomous underwater systems and naval intelligence in emerging geopolitical theaters

Artificial Intelligence related select programs
Customer/Program Project (if applicable) $ Type Descriptor Incumbent PM Office Status
USN/CANES 468M PROC The Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) is the Navy's Program of Record (POR) aimed at replacing and modernizing current afloat networks. It will provide a cyber-hardened, warfighting-resilient infrastructure that includes hardware, software, and enterprise services. This modernization is designed to enable information warfare in the tactical domain and enhance the Fleet's digital competitive advantage. 2915 Sigma Defense (in network) and small-business friendly
DARPA/Information & Communication technologies HIGH PRODUCTIVITY, HIGH-PERFORMANCE RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURES 333M RDTE "The High Productivity, High-Performance Responsive Architectures project focuses on developing the computer hardware and associated software technologies required for future computationally- and data-intensive national security applications."

This program is focused on maximum bare metal deployment capability for AI. Caveat is current focus on Quantum

 0602303E Research upon request
USMC/Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) 284M PROC USMC-wide IT infrastructure and hardware/software deployments under Windows OS 10 & 11. With competing priorities to modernize the USMC aligned with Force Design 2030. Long-term opportunity but short-fuse to capture customer imagination and preference.

Recommend to engage early and influence the architecture

 4625 Research upon request
USA/TITAN Linchpin 160M RDTE Develop ai/ml vendor ecosystem for Army-wide problem solving. Initial focus on TITAN and kill-chain and intel technologies. But has an all encompoasssing mandate to deliver AI/ML writ larg and is an early key terrain for LLM/AI companies 0605148A Multi-vendor. SETA: BAH Bharat Patel PEO IEW&S 
Live: MAC IDIQ RFP expected Q1 2025

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